Service to our patients and community

Population Health

Population health is “the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group” (Kindig and Stoddart, 2003). For the family physician, the most obvious “group of individuals” is their patient panel.

Population health includes health outcomes, patterns of health determinants, and policies and interventions that link these two.

Goals of population health may include:

- Coordinate care with community stakeholders and other key partners through mature collaborations; - Increase preventive health services through coordinated care across the health care continuum; - Provide culturally and linguistically appropriate care; - Promote healthy behaviors; and - Track population health metrics against dashboard targets.